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I Straw Cutter. No. 44,042. Patented Aug. 30, 1864.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

W. P. GOOLMAN, OFlNDIANAPOLlS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO GOODMAN, MORRIS 8t00., OF SAME PLACE.

STRAW-CUTTER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,042, dated August30, 186 1.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that- I, W. P. GOOLMAN, of Indianapolis, Marion county, andState of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Machine for Outtin gStraw, called Goolmans Cutting- Box, and I-do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, in which- Figure l is a perspectiveview; Figs. 2, 3, and 4, details; and 5, 6, and 7 sections.

The nature of my invention consists in using a triangular box, N,through which passes the stud P. Attached to this stud is the lever Fwith knife G, the gage-plate E, which is fastened to the lever at K bymeans of the setscrew 0.

P represents the stud, and P the flanges of the same. 5, 6, and 7represent the box N, and T the washer which presses upon the indiarubberpacking X, between the box-rin g S and the stud P.

W represents the ring of gage plate E, by means of which the plate isfastened to the lever at K.

R R represent the ends of stud, which are provided with a screw.

M and U are the nuts. L is the washer, and F is the lever, to which isattached the knife G.

D is the mouth-piece, with its projections the straw.

A A represent the box; (1, the cover, and B B B B the frame-work.

Q is the stop or check for the knife.

H is the handle of lever F.

X represents the india-rubber.

Operation: The tightening of the nut at the rearend of screw on stud Pagainst the washer T and the rubber X causes the stud to press againstthe three set-screws a 66 a, and permits any desired adjustment of theknife G to the mouth-piece D by changing any one or all the threescrews.

1 do not claim adjusting the knife by means of the set-screws a a a, forIam aware that this has been done before; but

What Iclaim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is

The combination of the box N with the stud P and set-screws a a a, theelastic substance X, the washer T and nut U, all arranged and operatingsubstantially as and for the purpose shown and described.

W. P. GOOLMAN.

Witnesses:

A. F. Monnrson, J N0. L. SMITHMYER.

